East Penn Township

Famous quotes containing the words east, penn and/or township:

    “Though all the East did quake to hear
    Of Alexander’s dreadful name,
    And all the West likewise did fear
    To hear of Julius Caesar’s fame,”
    —Robert Southwell (1561?–1595)

    “the pomp
    Of pain swells like the Indies, or a plum”
    —Robert Penn Warren (1905–1989)

    “A township where one primitive forest waves above while another primitive forest rots below,—such a town is fitted to raise not only corn and potatoes, but poets and philosophers for the coming ages. In such a soil grew Homer and Confucius and the rest, and out of such a wilderness comes the Reformer eating locusts and wild honey.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)